How To Use Shoreward In A Sentence
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This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea.
CHAPTER VI
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This was the battle -- to win seaward against the Creep of the shoreward hastening sea.
CHAPTER VI
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Hilo-wards, and for several months, spreading through the dense forests which belt the mountain, crept slowly shorewards, threatening this beautiful portion of Hawaii with the fate of the
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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I avail to stop it nor turn it shorewards, till it stopped with me at a great and goodly city, grandly edified and containing much people.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Once shorewards of the breakers cetaceans and odontocetes could interpret relative quite as deeper water, and swim shorewards to their sad suicides.
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One seemed to see as well as feel this heat, and Griffiths sought vain relief by gazing shoreward.
A SON OF THE SUN
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The sea itself rolled shorewards more silently and lazily than usual.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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When you see the wave coming that you want to ride in, you turn tail to it and paddle shoreward with all your strength, using what is called the windmill stroke.
Jack London:Surfing in Hawaii
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Slowly, as if he were marching through a river of syrup, he plodded shoreward, emerged on the muddy bank, and dropped down face first.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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When the wash receded they followed it with an incredibly rapid twinkling of little legs; and when again the wave rushed, shoreward, _scuttle, scuttle, scuttle_ went they, keeping always just at the edge of the water.
The Gray Dawn
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They cut trails, spreading apart as the wave carried them shoreward.
Bad Dad
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I saw great fat men with their hair streaked with grey, balancing themselves on their narrow surf-boards, and riding the surges shorewards with as much enjoyment as if they were in their first youth.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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I was alone in the water when a giant black manta ray came billowing along, headed shoreward.
Strange Paradise
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So they rode in majestically, always just ahead of the breaker, carried shorewards by its mighty impulse at the rate of forty miles an hour, yet seeming to have a volition of their own, as the more daring riders knelt and even stood on their surf-boards, waving their arms and uttering exultant cries.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Not long afterward we answered a shoreward hail, and two
A Raid on the Oyster Pirates
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Movement in any other direction than shoreward in circumstances of disorientation would take the animal away from food and mates, with maladaptive consequences.
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Paddling, wheezing, resting, oblivious of the shadow-world of the white men, knowing only the reality of Tulagi Mountain cutting its crest-line blackly across the dim radiance of the star-sprinkled sky, the reality of the sea and of the canoe he so feebly urged across it, and the reality of his fading strength and of the death into which he would surely end, the ancient black man slowly made his shoreward way.
CHAPTER 2
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It was not until they were putting on their shoes that they sighted the yellow head bearing shoreward.
CHAPTER VI
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However, I had neither board nor wetsuit with me and I sure as hell wasn't going to find anyone up here to borrow them off, so the waves peeled shorewards unridden, as they have for aeons.
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It tractive off a faceted that mistranslation a maigre of fired fugue vividly the fumigation and synaesthetic avalokitesvara dictamnus from shoreward hausmannite on two purdah platonism.
Rational Review
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The low-density surface water moved shoreward over the upwelled water, forming a convergence zone at the front.
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I thought finally that if I didn't accept that Arne was gone and get started shorewards, I was very likely going to drown on that spot.
Slay Ride
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Frona saw them consult together for a minute, with much pointing and gesticulating on the part of the baron, and then St. Vincent detach himself and turn shoreward.
CHAPTER 23
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Board and rider must be moving shoreward at a good rate before the wave overtakes them.
Jack London:Surfing in Hawaii
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the shoreward tendency of the current
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She was on the shoreward side of the dinghy, away from the searchlights.
TOY SHOP
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Two or three athletes, who stood erect on their boards as they swept exultingly shorewards, were received with ringing cheers by the crowd.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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As far as she knew, he didn't even glance shorewards, but when he had had enough he came wading out, water dripping from him as he ran his hands over his wet head.
Barefoot Bride
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The 30 day the winde Southeast, they wayed, and set saile to the Northeastwards: but the ship fell so on the side to the shorewards, that they were forced eftsoones to take in their saile, and ancre againe, from whence they neuer remoued her.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Beyond the wave they had gone through, they finally showed, side by side, still six feet apart, swimming shoreward with a steady stroke until the next wave should make them body-surf it or face and pierce it.
THE KANAKA SURF
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It shuffles forward and a head can be seen pointing shorewards.
Times, Sunday Times
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This may be an important mechanism promoting the shoreward migration of larval invertebrates and fish.
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Ships -- three ships, and others heading shorewards behind them -- were coming into the deep harbour to westward.
The Wicked Day
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After the wires pass, the tillerman on the second barge manages to swing the heavy craft shoreward, this time toward the western shore, where it grinds to a halt, less than a handful of rods from Kadara's squad.
The Magic Engineer
